Bread omlette

Ingredients:

• Bread - 2 slices
• Salt
• Egg - 2
  
• Onion - 1/2 chopped
• pepper powder
  
• Oil
• Green chilly - 1/2

Method:

• Heat a tava, place the bread slices on the tava.
• Mix rest of
• 
  te ingredients.
• Pour it on the bread. Add oil to it.
• Turn it and cook the other side.

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Tasty bred omlette ready. Serve hot with Tomato ketchup.

Sending to "Spotlight : Breakfast Ideas" and http://cuisinedelights.blogspot.com/2012/02/my-first-event-spotlight-colourful-holi.html , Lets Party and Surabhi's page

Vaniyambadi Chicken biryani

Ingredients:

• Chicken - 500 gms
• Basmathi Rice - 2 Cups
• Onion - 2
  
• Tomato - 2
• Green Chilly - 3
• Curd - 3 tsp
• Ginger garlic paste - 2 tsp
• Cloves- 4
• Cinnamon - 2 - 3 pieces
• Cardamom - 4
• 
  Bay leaf - 2
• Chilly powder - 1 1/2 tsp
• Lemon - 1
• Salt to taste
• Water - 4 cups
• Oil
• Food colour optional . Saffron soaked in water

Method:

• Marinate chicken with curd, lemon, ginger garlic paste and little salt.


• In a Cooker , add oil , temper all the spices.
• Add green chillies, onion together and fry it till brown.
• Add ginger garlic paste. Then tomatoes. Stir well.
• Add Chilly powder.
• Later on add the marinated chicken stir it for about 10 mins.
• Add salt and rice.
• Keep for three whistles.
• Add food colour / saffron, Stir well
• Garnish with Coriander leaves.

Chicken Pepper Chettinad

Ingredients:

• Chicken - 500 gms
• Ginger garlic paste - 1 1/2 tspOnion - 1
• Tomato - 1
• Oil
• Chilly powder - 3/4 tsp
• Coriander powder - 2 tsp
• Pepper powder - 1 tsp
• Curry leaves
• Green chilly - 1
• Water
• Salt

For tempering:

• Cloves - 2
• Cinnamon - 1"

Method:

• Heat oil in a pan. Temper all the above ingredients.
  
• Add green chilly, curry leaves and onions. Fry them.
• Add ginger garlic paste till raw smell disappears.
• Add tomato. Saute them well till mushy.
• Add chilly powder ,coriander powder, pepper powder and salt.
• Add chicken and water.
• Allow it to boil well.
• Finally add little curry leaves and pepper powder.

Tomato - Coconut Chutney

Ingredients:

• Coconut - one handful
• Tomato - 1 small
• Fried gram/ Roasted gram dal - 3 tsp
• Red chilly - 2
• Garlic - 2 cloves
• Salt

For tempering:

• Mustard seeds
• Curry leaves
• Urad dal

Method:

• Grind all the above ingredients.
• Finally temper it.

Tasty Spicy Chutney is ready.

Capsicum Curry / Bell pepper Currry

Ingredients:

• Capsicum - 1 1/2 chopped into square pieces
• Chilly powder - 3/4 tsp
• Coriander powder - 2 tsp
• Coconut - 2 tsp grated
• Onion - 1 finely chopped
• Ginger garlic paste - 1/2 tsp
• Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
• Peanuts - 1/2 cup
• Salt
• Green chilly - 1
• Water
• Oil / Butter
• Tomato ketchup - 1 tbsp

Method:

• Heat oil in a pan, season cumin seeds.
• Add green chilly and onion. Saute them well.
• Meanwhile, Grind coconut, peanuts, coriander powder, chilly powder, salt and ginger garlic paste.
• After the onions are fried, add the ground paste.
• Add little water. Close it and cook for 10 mins. See if the raw smell disappears.
• Add tomato ketchup to give the tangy flavour.Stir well
• Add capsicum to it and jus cook for 5 mins.

Awesome Capsicum curry is ready . Serve hot with Roti/ Naan/ Chapathi.

Semiya Egg Biryani

Ingredients:

• Semiya - 2 cups
• Water - 4 cups
• egg - 3
• Onion - 1
• Tomato- 1
• Lemon - 1/2
• Chilly powder - 1 tsp
• Coriander powder - 2 tsp
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
• Coriander leaves - one handful
• Green chilly - 1
• Ginger garlic paste - 1 1/2 tsp

For tempering:

• Cloves - 2
• Bay leaf - 1
• Cinnamon - 1 "

Method:

• Dry roast semiya separately and keep it aside.
• Heat oil in a cooker, temper all the above ingredients.
• Add green chilly and onions. Fry them well.
• Add ginger garlic paste.Cook till raw smell disappears.
• Add tomatoes.cook well.
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• Add Chilly powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and salt.
• Add water and allow it to boilr.Add lemon juice and coriander leaves to it.
• Add eggs to the boiling water. Stir them continuously
• Finally add the semiya. Cook it opened .Garnish with coriander leaves.

Mix well -Yummy Semiya egg biryani readyBiryani is ready.

StrawberryPancake / Honey Pancake

Ingredients:

• Maida - 1/2 cup
• Water
• Salt - a pinch
• Sugar - 1 tsp

Method:

• Mix all the above ingredients into dosa batter consistency.
• Heat tava, make small thick dosas using batter. Turn around and boil. Pancakes are ready.


• For strawberry flavour, apply strawberry jam on top of it.
• For honey pancakes, apply honey.

Toddlers who like sweet taste, will definitely like this pancake.

This recipe goes for

http://arusuvai-kurippu.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/event-announcement-healthy-food-for.html

and http://www.nithubala.com/2012/01/event-announcement-healthy-food-for.html

Sending to Jagruti 's event hosted by Shama

Carrot Soup for toddlers

Ingredients:

• Carrot - 1
• Water
• pepper powder - 1/4 tsp

Garlic - 1 clove

Salt

Method:

• Boil Carrot and garlic in the cooker.
• Grind it using water.
• Add salt and pepper powder.

Its very healthy for the babies since its rich Vitamin A. They would love to drink.

This recipe goes for

http://arusuvai-kurippu.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/event-announcement-healthy-food-for.html

and http://www.nithubala.com/2012/01/event-announcement-healthy-food-for.html

Sago Vada / Sabudhana Vada

Ingredients:

• 3 medium potato boiled, peeled and mashed
• 1 cup sabudana (sago)
• Water (to soak sabudana)
• 1 medium onion (finely chopped)
• 3-4 green chillies (finely chopped)
• 1 tbsp ginger (finely chopped/minced)
• Curry leaves ( tear or finely chopped)
• Vegetable/canola/sunflower oil (to fry around 2 cups)

Method:

• Soak the sabudana (sago) in water 3-4 hours.
• It will puff up and become translucent. Drain excess water and mix the sabudana with all he other ingredients and form a dough (more like a chunky paste) except oil.
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• Add salt to taste. Divide the sago mixture into equal-size
• d balls and flatten slightly to form patties.
• Heat oil in a pan/kadai and fry the patties until golden brown. Drain on tissues and serve with Sauce.

Palak mushroom

Ingredients:

• Mushroom - 1 pkt
• Palak / Spinach - 1 bundle
• Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
• Water
• Butter
• Malai - 3 tbsp
• Onion - 1
• tomato - 1
• Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
• Chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
• Oil

Method:

• Heat oil and little butter in a pan, temper cumin seeds.
• Add chopped onions to it. Fry them well. Add Ginger garlic paste.
• Fry till raw smell vanishes.
• Add tomatoes.Cool till it becomes mushy.
• Meanwhile, boil water in a vessel and add the washed greens.
• Drain it and grind it into a fine paste.
• Add chilly powder and salt to the tomatoes.
• Add the mushroom. Saute once.
• Add the palak paste. Stir well.
• Allow it to boil once.
• Finally add malai and mix.

Garnish with 1 tbsp of Malai.Tastes best with Roti / Naan.

Seding this Iron rich food to Show me your hits and Sangee's hits.

Linking to jagruti's Super foods event

Sending to Samayal diary event and  JUSTEAT.

Rose Kheer

Wonderful dessert loved by my baby.


Ingredients:

• Milk - 1/2 litre
• Condensed milk - 1 cup
• Basmathi rice - 3 tbsp
• Water - little
• Rose petals - 2 flowers
• Rose syrup - 3 tbsp

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Method:

• Wash rice and boil in water.
• After the rice is boiled , add milk to it.
• Allow the milk to boil and add rose petals.
• Add the condensed milk to it. Mix well.
• Finally add the rose syrup.

Sweety Rose kheer is ready. Garnish with Rose.

Add nuts its optional. I didn't add nuts . I didn't want to change the taste.

This recipe goes for

http://www.nithubala.com/2012/03/event-announcement-cooking-with-love.html and http://www.sarascorner.net/2012/01/cooking-with-love-grandmom-event.html

and http://arusuvai-kurippu.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/event-announcement-healthy-food-for.html

and http://www.nithubala.com/2012/01/event-announcement-healthy-food-for.html

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• SENDING THIS TO NIVEDHANAM'S GIVEAWAY !

   

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Manga pachadi

Here comes the special sweet for tamil new year and Ugadhi. One of the favourite dishes from my grandma.

Ingredients:

• Raw mango - 1 cup
• Jaggery - 1/4 cup
• Water
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp

For tempering:

• Red chilly - 1
• Ghee - 1 tsp
• Mustard seeds

Method:

• Slice the mango into flat pieces.
• Add turmeric powder and little water.
  Boil it in cooker for 3 whistles.
• Add jaggery in water, allow it to dissolve.
• Strain it and allow it to boil.
• Add the boiled mango. Stir well. Allow it to boil once.
• Finally, temper it.

This recipe goes for

http://www.sarasyummybites.com/2012/04/event-announcement-kitchen-chronicles.html and http://www.sizzlingtastebuds.com/2012/03/new-event-pickles-preserves-fest-and.html

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Baby Corn fritters

I heard that baby corn has rich protein value. My 1 n half yrs old baby likes fried items. So i made her Fritters using baby corn.

Ingredients:

• Babycorn -4( cut into 4 pieces length wise)
  
• Curd - 2 tsp

• Red chilly paste - 5 tsps
• Maida- 2 tbsp
• Corn flour - 2 tbsp
• Rice flour - 2 tbsp
  
• Salt
• 
  Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
• Colour- optional

Other ingredients:

• Oil
• Roasted gram flour

Method:

• Marinate all the ingredients for marination for about 1 hr.
• Heat oil in a pan, Shallow fry can be done.
• Dip or coat the surface of marinated babycorn in roasted gram flour and fry it.

Crispy baby corn fritters ready. My baby loved it and that gives a good calories for her dinner. It can also be given for evening snacks.

This recipe goes for

http://arusuvai-kurippu.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/event-announcement-healthy-food-for.html

and http://www.nithubala.com/2012/01/event-announcement-healthy-food-for.html

Linking to Jagruti's Know your Flours - Corn flour event . By Shama

Kanchipuram Idly

Ingredients:

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• Rice - 1 cup
• Urad dal - 2 tbsp
• Moong dal - 1/4 cup
• Curd ( sour) - 1/2 cup
• Salt

For tempering:

• Mustard seeds
• Oil
• Urad dal
• Gram dal
• Cashews
• Green chilly - 2 finely chopped
• Ginger - finely chopped
• Curry leaves

Method:

• Soak rice and dal. grind it.
• Mix it with curd.
• Temper all the above ingredients in oil.
• Mix it in the batter.
• Make yummy idlies.

You can make like normal idlies and also steam it in plate.

Tomato Dosa

Ingredients:

• Tomato - 2
• Red chilly - 3
• Salt
• Jeera - 1 tsp
• Dosa batter - 2 cups
• Garlic - 4 cloves
• Oil

Method:

• Grind tomato , red chilly, garlic and salt. Mix it in batter.
• Add jeera to the batter.
• Make crispy wonderful dosas.

I served it with Onion kara chutney. You can serve with any other chutneys.

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Onion Kara chutney

Ingredients:

• Onion - 1
• Red chilly - 2
  
• Hing
• Salt
• Tamarind - small piece

For tempering :

• Curry leaves
• Mustard seeds
• Oil

Method:

• Heat a tsp of oil in a pan. Fry the onions till they are translucent.
• Add red chilly, tamarind and hing.
• Add Salt and allow it to cool down.
• Grind it and temper it.